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Wednesday, February 04, 2015

I tend to jump around in what I focus on when I'm attempting to improve. Lately my attention has been on food. I may have mentioned that I want to take my supper (lunch? food I eat at work) from things I have made here at home rather than continuing to buy pre-made meals. I am so out of the habit of cooking that it is difficult to remember to fit it in. Yeah, really. I live alone, so that is my excuse.

This past week I took my lunch all 4 nights. The weeks before I averaged between 1-3 nights of home made food. I'm throwing out a lot of questionable food from my fridge. That leaves room for the fresh stuff. One day a couple of weeks ago I bought a Costco rotisserie chicken. I pulled the legs off and put the rest into a ziplock freezer bag and shoved it in the freezer to be dealt with later. It was really good (perhaps not healthy, but that is step 2 (or 3 or 4). On my first night off this week I took it out of the freezer and put it in the fridge to defrost. This being my last night off I realized I need to do 'something' with it. So I pulled all the meat (well, most of it, this is a learning experience) and put the bones and skin in a pot with water on low heat on the stove. I hope to have what the new kids call 'bone broth' these days by the time I have to go to bed. I'll strain it and put it... somewhere. Probably the freezer until I can do something else with it. The meat will be made into chicken salad and I've already had a chicken fajita. Last week the menu was based around a can of salmon, this week chicken, the week before chili. I'm about ready to cycle back to chili. However, some pork chops with some mashed sweet potato also sound good, so maybe another trip to Costco and Ranch Market are in order.

I made lentil soup last week, and added some curry powder (a bit too much) for the first time. It morphed into dal, so I made some rice and that was supper for 2 nights. I took some to Favorite Neighbor an she wasn't impressed. It was the first time she had ever had curry. I don't think we will be hitting any Indian restaurants on our evenings out. The rest went into the freezer. Maybe in a couple of weeks I'll be ready for it again. The freezer is getting full.

Last night Rod and Favorite Neighbor and a couple of other neighbors who we scooped up to go along went to a Mexican restaurant on the back side of South Mountain called Los Dos Molinos. It was a nice place and kinda fun. Food was good, company was even better. A fun night for some of us who don't get out a lot. I'm enjoying the Supper Club as I've called it.

On another note, Mom will be here in a couple of weeks to visit for 2 weeks. More on that as it progresses.